Kent Pitman<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ieji.de/@vnikolov" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vnikolov</span></a></span> </p><p>> Now I am reminded (maybe it's a distant<br>> association) of John Maynard Keynes<br>>(I think): "in the long run we're all dead".</p><p>Yeah, this kind of obvious truth is troublesome. I have a closely related haiku (original context <a href="https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/113603713366583693" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">climatejustice.social/@kentpit</span><span class="invisible">man/113603713366583693</span></a>):</p><p>borrowed from Nothing<br>we, and Time itself, pretend<br>we were here at all</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>senryu</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ShortPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShortPoem</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallPoem</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallPoems</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>time</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/existence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>existence</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaphysics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cosmology</span></a></p>